Apraxia RainbowBee 1.7
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****I really like the fact that in addition to hearing the presented syllables, words and phrases you can play a brief video for the child which shows the actual mouth production of the presented stimulus items. (Smart Speech Therapy)****
The Apraxia RainbowBee app is a multi-step, multi-modality program with colorful graphic, photo, audio, and video targets and fun engaging games. The program is designed to help enhance motor planning for children with an apraxic component that impacts their speech production.
The Apraxia RainbowBee app gives therapists the flexibility not only to choose between three levels of complexity but also to manipulate the prompting of visual, auditory, tactile, and lexical stimuli presented to the child. The therapists are also able to choose their targets and the amount of stimulus trials at each level. In addition to using hundreds of photos and video recordings included in this app, the therapists can add their own images and record their own videos, making speech therapy more individualized.
This dynamic app embraces the principals of motor planning and works by starting with the CV and VC syllable level and then moving to CVC words, 2 syllable words, 3 syllable words, and finally the expanding sentence level. “Differentiating CAS from other causes of articulatory disorder is the observation that errors are more frequent with increasing phonetic complexity and increasing length of the word or utterance. If the word contains phonemes such as sibilants or affricates articulatory errors will increase. Increasing the length of utterance will also have substantial effect on articulatory accuracy. (Yorkston, Beukelman, Strand, and Hakel, 2010)
The Apraxia RainbowBee includes flashcards and two fun Games:
-A puzzle game played as a reward with flashcards
-A fun animated board game
"... Motor learning happens through experience and that experience takes practice. This implies therapy "drills," a concept dreaded by both children and clinicians. To improve motor skill in these children, the clinician must elicit hundreds of utterances per session; however, this need not be drudgery. Sessions can be fast moving, interesting, and even fun for the child. More important, when children start having success with the movement patterns, they easily become even more engage in the drill work." (Yorkston, Beukelman, Strand, and Hakel, 2010)
REFERENCES
Management of Motor Speech Disorders in Children and Adults Third (3rd) Edition .Kathryn M. Yorkston, David R. Beukelman, Edythe A. Strand, Mark Hakel
Author: Karin Howard M.A., CCC-SLP
Developed by: Virtual Speech Center, Inc.
Mar 6, 2015
Version 1.7
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- 64-bit machine support
About Apraxia RainbowBee
Apraxia RainbowBee is a paid app for iOS published in the Kids list of apps, part of Education.
The company that develops Apraxia RainbowBee is Virtual Speech Center Inc.. The latest version released by its developer is 1.7.
To install Apraxia RainbowBee on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2015-03-06 and was downloaded 3 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Apraxia RainbowBee as malware if the download link is broken.
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